Personal Blog Post #4

Self-Assessment, Experience 4

I'm using the simple experience of taking my first online college exam.

My two greatest strengths:
1. I am good at managing time, even in the setting of a timed exam. It is easy for me to decide exactly how much time I can give myself on each individual question, whether I know them or have to look for the answer.
2. My other greatest strength was the ability to quickly search through my textbook and notes to find the answer to problems I didn't know. Considering I got an 84%, it obviously wasn't perfect. However, truth be told I had not thoroughly read all chapters of the textbook, and there were many questions I was unsure about. All in all, I think I did fairly well for my first online exam in college. Especially considering how much the class average went down...

My two areas for improvement:
1.
a. Short term plan: To improve for the next exam, I will do a better job of thoroughly reading the textbook.
b. Long-term plan: In general for online tests, I would change the setting in which I took the exam. I wasn't too worried because it was only 50 questions, but I was definitely distracted by surroundings.
2.
a. Short term plan: Again, for the next exam, I will make sure to have my PowerPoint's from  right by me, because I wasn't expecting any of the questions to be coming from there.
b. Long-term plan: For future online exams, particularly ones that are timed, I will do a better job of studying and being more well prepared for what to expect on the exam.

Insights about my performance:
Overall for my first time, I think I did well. Though I'm not particularly happy with the grade, it's still not bad and leaves plenty of room for improvement in the future.